Assessing the strength of directed influences among neural signals using renormalized partial directed coherence

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-130

  Schelter, Björn ^a   Timmer, Jens ^a   Eichler, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Granger causality; Graphical models; Multivariate time series; Partial directed coherence; Renormalization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSAL MODELING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREMOR;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PERIODICITY; TREMOR;

EID: 61649124007     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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